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1. New Director of CBI is...? CURRENT AFFAIRS 1) Rajnath Singh 2) Rajiv Jain 3) Anil Kumar Dhasmana 4) Alok Kumar Verma 5) Ajith Doval 2. Who was elected as the new President of the European Parliament on 17 th January 2017? 1) Jean Claude Junker 2) Donald Tusk 3) Antonio Tajani 4) Jens Stoltenberg 5) Mario Draghi 3. Who was elected as the new President of Haiti? 1) Jacob Zuma 2) Edger Lungu 3) Jovenel Moise 4) Omaral-Bashir 5) Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 4. Haiti capital is... 1) Johannesburg 2) Lusaka 3) Port-au-Prince 4) Khartoum 5) Mogadishu 5. Haiti currency is... 1) Rand 2) Kwacha 3) Gourde 4) Pound 5) Shilling 6. Which Bollywood actress won the Favourite Dramatic TV Actress Award in the 2017 People's Choice Awards? 1) Deepika Padukone 2) Kangana Ranaut 3) Priyanka Chopra 4) Katrina Kaif 5) Anushka Sharma 7. Priyanka Chopra won People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic TV Actress for her role as CIA agent in which TV series? 1) Quantico 2) Captain America Civil War 3) The Jungle Book 4) Zootopia 5) How To Be Single 8. The Best FIFA Men's Player 2016 conferred on...? 1) Claudio Ranieri 2) Manuel Neuer 3) Lionel Messi 4) Toni Kroos 5) Cristiano Ronaldo 9. T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry conferred on... 1) Salman Rushdie 2) Marianne Wiggins 3) Adam.R.Dell 4) Theodore Joseph "Ted" Forstmann 5) Jacob Polley R-31-1-17

10. For which book, T. S. Eliot prize for Poetry conferred on Jacob Polley, the cash award for the prize is 20,000? 1) Jackself 2) The Half and Full 3) Instinct Pose 4) Dream of the Next Gen 5) Hint and Fall 11. The 62 nd Filmfare awards winner list given. The incorrect combination is... 1) Best Film - Dangal 2) Best Actor (Male) - Aamir Khan for Dangal 3) Best Actor (Female) - Alia Bhatt for 'Udta Punjab' 4) Life time Achievement Award - Shatrughan Sinha 5) All of above correct 12. Union Government established which committee to suggest and recommend formation of National Sports Development Code (NSDC)? 1) Injeti Srinivas 2) A.S. Padmanabhan 3) B.N. Sri Krishna 4) Chandrababu Naidu 5) Amitabh Kanth 13. Who heads the committee to review the institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism? 1) Arvind Pangariya 2) S.S. Mundra 3) B.N. Srikrishna 4) Ratan P. Watal 5) M.B. Sha 14. Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) constituted a working group as part of its efforts to fight online piracy. Who among the following is the chairman of the committee? 1) Rajiv Mohan 2) Kranthi Desai 3) Vijay Keshav 4) Ajit Mohan 5) Tromy Paske 15. Which Committee on Digital Payments recommended appropriate measures for encouraging Digital Payments submitted its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 9 th December 2016? 1) S.S. Mundra 2) Amitab Kanth 3) Ratan P. Watal 4) Ashok Lavasa 5) Shakthikanth Das 16. Committee of Chief Ministers headed by... constituted to promote digital payment systems to promote transparency and financial inclusion 1) Shivraj Singh Chouhan 2) Naveen Patnaik 3) Chandrababu Naidu 4) V. Naryana Swamy 5) Devendra Fadnavis 17. Which state declared Dharamsala as its second capital on 19 th January 2017? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Arunachal Pradesh 5) Bihar

18. Himachal Pradesh Capital is Shimla. Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh is... 1) Manohar Lal Khattar 2) Prakash Singh Badal 3) Virbhadra Singh 4) Pema Khandu 5) Nitesh Kumar 19. Which state announced setting up a special panel to stop child trafficking under the chairmanship of Partha Chatterjee? 1) Maharashtra 2) Goa 3) West Bengal 4) Bihar 5) Kerala 20. Union Government recently decided to set up new Sewage Treatment Plant under new Ganga Cleaning Projects at Haridwar and...? 1) Varanasi 2) Tirupathi 3) Ujjain 4) Mumbai 5) Kolkata 21. Which nation agreed to help in developing Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi as smart cities? 1) USA 2) Netherlands 3) Japan 4) United Kingdom 5) Germany 22. Union Government allocated Rs.200.78 crore to set up Indian Agricultural Research Institute (lari) in...? 1) Jharkhand 2) Haryana 3) Telangana 4) Punjab 5) Assam 23. On 12 th January 2017, Union Government announced to increase the minimum pension for the central government employees to Rs...per person 1) Rs.11000 2) Rs.14000 3) Rs.7500 4) Rs.9500 5) Rs.9000 24. Union Minister of state for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is...? 1) Jitendra Singh 2) Dharmendra Pradhan 3) V.K. Singh 4) Bandaru Dattathreya 5) Maneka Gandhi 25. 29 th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (Scova) held at... 1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Kanpur 4) Chennai 5) Nainital 26. Ex-gratia amount for Central Government employees increased from Rs.10-15 lakh to... 1) Rs.15-25 lakh 2) Rs.35-45 lakh 3) Rs.15-45 lakh 4) Rs.18-30 lakh 5) Rs.25-35 lakh 27. As per the central government statement, there are about... pensioners in the country and almost 88% of pension accounts have been seeded to Aadhaar. 1) 50-55 lakh 2) 70-80 lakh 3) 90-95 lakh 4) 50-75 lakh 5) 40-55 lakh

28. Second Edition of Raisina Dialogue held on 17 th - 19 th January 2017 at...? 1) Mumbai 2) Kanpur 3) Pune 4) New Delhi 5) Bhopal 29. Theme of the 2017 Raisina Dialogue is... 1) Asia and throughout the world for us 2) India and Asia both connection to the Technology world 3) Connecting Asia Through World 4) Asia: Regional and Global Connectivity for the knowledge 5) The New Normal: Multilateralism in a Multi-polarity 30. Raisina Dialogue is India's flagship geo-political conference organized by Ministry of External Affairs in partnership with the Observer Research Foundation. It was inaugurated by... 1) Pranab Mukherjee 2) Sushma Swaraj 3) Narendra Modi 4) Jai Shankar 5) Hamid Ansari 31. 58 th India International Garment Fair (IIGF) 2017 organized at... 1) Gurgram 2) Coimbatore 3) Ahmedabad 4) Kochi 5) New Delhi 32. Which nation on 16 th January 2017 became the associate member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN formally? 1) Pakistan 2) South Korea 3) India 4) Afghanistan 5) Sri Lanka 33. European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN (Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nucleaire ) founded on 29 th September...? 1) 1951 2) 1947 3) 2005 4) 1998 5) 1954 34. Where is the Headquarters of CERN? 1) Lyon 2) Washington D C 3) Geneva 4) Paris 5) Tokyo 35. How many nations have membership in CERN? 1) 41 2) 18 3) 22 4) 42 5) 52 36. Present Director General of CERN is...? 1) Fabiola Gianotti 2) A.S. Kiran Kumar 3) Suma Chakravarti 4) Alex Michlel 5) Antonia Christon 37. 20 th National Conference on e-governance organized from 9 th - 10 th January 2017 in the state of... 1) Telangana 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Kerala 4) West Bengal 5) Rajasthan

38. First edition of the Nobel Prize Series Exhibition organized in..? 1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Haryana 5) Jharkhand 39. National Youth Day observed On... 1) 29 th August 2) 11 th November 3) 15 th September 4) 12 th January 5) 1 st July 40. National Youth Day celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of... 1) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad 2) Mokshagundam Visweswarayya 3) Dhyanchand 4) Swami Vivekananda 5) B.C. Roy 41. On 12 th January 2017, India celebrating... th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. 1) 60 2) 100 3) 102 4) 75 5) 154 42. In which year, Swami Vivekananda given historical speech in ''World's Parliament of Religion''? 1) 1900 2) 1875 3) 1857 4) 1893 5) 1914 43. Narendra Modi addressed the 21 st National Youth Festival in... via Video conference. 1) New Delhi 2) Belur 3) Kamarpukur 4) Rohtak 5) Raipur 44. Theme for the National Youth festival 2017 is...? 1) Youth for Progress 2) Youth and Festival: An Estimate 3) Youth and Make in India 4) Youth for Free Corruption 5) Youth for Digital India 45. Mascot of the National Youth festival 2017 is...? 1) Gori 2) Saathi 3) Lado 4) Mobile 5) Aadhar 46. India and... signed in the field of Youth Affairs on 18 th January 2017 1) UK 2) USA 3) Japan 4) Russia 5) Germany 47. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports is..? 1) Vijay Goel 2) Rao Indrejith Singh 3) Rajiv Prathap Rudy 4) Shripad Yasso Naik 5) Dharmendra Pradhan 48. World Hindi day celebrated on...? 1) 23 rd April 2) 7 th August 3) 10 th January 4) 21 st February 5) 14 th September

49. New captain of Indian Cricket Team for all three formats of the game is...? 1) Rishabh Pant 2) Ashish Nehra 3) Yuvraj Singh 4) Virat Kohli 5) Ajinkya Rahane 50. World Hindi Day was first observed in...? 1) 1994 2) 2000 3) 2006 4) 2010 5) 1996 ANSWERS 1-4; 2-3; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 6-3; 7-1; 8-5; 9-5; 10-1; 11-5; 12-1; 13-3; 14-4; 15-3; 16-3; 17-3; 18-3; 19-3; 20-1; 21-3; 22-1; 23-5; 24-1; 25-2; 26-5; 27-1; 28-4; 29-5; 30-3; 31-5; 32-3; 33-5; 34-3; 35-3; 36-1; 37-2; 38-1; 39-4; 40-4; 41-5; 42-4; 43-4; 44-5; 45-3; 46-4; 47-1; 48-3; 49-4; 50-3. Writer: A. Veeraswamy